Brendan Rodgers has revealed he persuaded Neil Taylor to stay at Swansea City instead of joining Newcastle United in 2011 while climbing down from Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Northern Irishman guided the Swans into the Premier League courtesy of a dramatic 4-2 win over his former club Reading in the play-off final at the end of the 2010/11 season. Shortly after getting the Swans into the promised land, Rodgers joined a host of celebrities on a charity walk up Mount Kilimanjaro.
But the current Leicester City boss has revealed he was late hearing about Newcastle's interest in former Wales star Taylor due to a lack of phone signal on the 5,895-metre-high mountain in Tanzania.
